Ottawa Writers Festival presents Race, Repression and Resilience with Chelene Knight and Robyn Maynard. When it comes to race in Canada, there is a tendency in the national discourse to assume that this country doesn’t face the same issues as our neighbours to the south. Join us for a taste of the personal and the […]
Book*hug invites you to celebrate the launch of our Spring 2018 season! Launching new books by Jacob Wren, Chelene Knight, Steven Zultanski, Aaron Giovannone, Catherine Fatima and two new translations by JC Sutcliffe. Doors at 7pm. Readings to begin at 7:50. Free and open to all. Enjoy readings by the authors. Books will be for […]
The FOLD (Festival of Literary Diversity) presents: Extraordinary Stories, featuring Lee Maracle, author of My Conversations with Canadians. Also with: Kim Thuy and Rabindranath Maharaj. Moderated by Carraianne Leung.
Rowers Reading Series presents Jennifer LoveGrove (Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes) and Gwen Benaway (Holy Wild). Also reading: Liz Howard and George Elliott Clarke.
The 2018 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival presents readings by the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award nominees, including Oisin Curran (Blood Fable), as well Sarah Faber (All is Beauty Now) and Carol Bruneau (A Bird on Every Tree).
Mixed Me: Multi-ethnic Storytelling for Teens & Kids with Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant. Also with: Michelle Kim and Jeff Chiba Stearns. For story-tellers and story-lovers! Hapa-palooza Festival, a celebration of mixed heritage arts and ideas, presents an afternoon of multi-ethnic storytelling for teens, kids, and families. Please join three exciting mixed race […]
Join Aaron Giovannone for the Calgary launch of his latest book, The Nonnets. Doors open at 7 pm. The reading begins at 8 pm. Books will be for sale by Shelf Life Books.